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Posted on Nov 17, 2015
Cpl Robert Masi
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CPT Jack Durish
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What do you want to be when you grow up? I bet you heard that question countless times, haven't you? Who knows? Maybe you wanted to be a soldier, a sailor, an airman, or a Marine. Sadly, for whatever reason, that choice is being extinguished in your life and you're back where we all started. What do you want to do now? It's hard to choose when you don't know the choices, isn't it?

Once upon a time, when I was a computer consultant and teaching desktop applications between gigs, there was a young woman (a very attractive and well dressed young woman) who took classes in just about everything. She even repeated a few. I learned that she came from a wealthy family and her daddy could have bought her way into any college or university, but didn't have to. She was bright and successful as a student and could have earned her way into any one she wanted. One day I had lunch with her and asked what her plan was. She answered honestly that she didn't know. She didn't yet know what her choices were. So, figuring that whatever she did she would need computer skills, she started there. She then was going to work for a Temp Agency so that she could work in many different environments, to see what different organizations did, and what types of jobs people did there.

Basically, she pissed me off. How the hell did she get it all. Beauty, intelligence, wealth, and wisdom and not yet out of her teens?

Sadly, I lost track of her and can't tell you how well she fared, but I'm willing to bet the ranch that she did very well...
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Cpl Robert Masi
Cpl Robert Masi
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Personally, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a Garbage Man, or an International Business Lawyer.....I kind of did both when I got into sales. I shoveled sh*t in Business for a living
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PO1 John Miller
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Cpl Robert Masi
Great advice, but sales isn't for everyone!
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Cpl Robert Masi
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True. But I couldn't talk about every profession. I find that speaking in such broad generalities essentially makes any advice useless. So I decided to give advice on the Profession I'm most knowledgeable in.
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SSgt Alex Robinson
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Great post.
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